Paul Barton
I am a leading Technology and Outsourcing lawyer with over 20 years' experience spent advising leading service providers and suppliers of technology and software, multinational companies, early stage and high growth technology start-ups and government bodies.
I'm a specialist in IT law, Intellectual Property Rights, Data Protection and Privacy, Cloud computing, Internet and e-commerce law, Outsourcing, SaaS, AdTech, Digital transformation and procurement projects. I also advise on innovative technologies like distributed ledger technology, AI and machine learning and the licensing and exploitation of digital data and databases.
I'm a specialist in IT law, Intellectual Property Rights, Data Protection and Privacy, Cloud computing, Internet and e-commerce law, Outsourcing, SaaS, AdTech, Digital transformation and procurement projects. I also advise on innovative technologies like distributed ledger technology, AI and machine learning and the licensing and exploitation of digital data and databases.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 1991
Membership
- The Law Society
Education
- University of Warwick (LLB)
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PRACTICE NOTES
A practitioner’s guide to open data and re-use of public sector information: UK regime, EU developments, licensing, GDPR and IP issues
What is open data?
Put simply, ‘open data’ describes information released to the public in an open, machine-readable form, on licence terms that let users access, reuse and exploit it on a royalty-free basis. There is no single, universally agreed definition of open data. One widely cited example is the Open Definition 2.1 from the Open Knowledge Foundation. That definition is detailed, specific and designed to foster the widest uptake.
Key elements of the Open Definition are:
Data should be supplied at no more than a reasonable, one-off reproduction cost.
Data should be available without restrictions on use, and it must be possible to process it using at least one open source, free or ‘libre’ software tool.
The accompanying licence must meet certain conditions. In broad terms, it must allow use for any purpose without limiting the field of use, and permit distribution and modification of the source data, the creation of derivative works from the source, and the compilation and redistribution of the source alongside other data...
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